See Baby Discriminate Summary

The article “See Baby Discriminate” written by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman discusses about the researchers attempting to find of how racism is begun in early childhood. In the beginning, the early claim assumed that children see race only when society points it out to them. However, child-development researchers have begun to question the presumption as the decades go by. They argue that children see racial differences as early as six months to three years old. But, in this article, the evidences that were presented were full of flaws that prevented them from being viable sources to support the claim. The first evidence in the article began with Birgitte Vittrup did a research study about that if the children’s racial attitudes changes
His fourth months old son, Luke attended a preschool located in San Francisco's Fillmore/Western Addition neighborhood where it had a great racial diversity. Since then, his son never once mentioned the color of his peers’ skin and then never brought the discussion of racism to him ever. Until, Martin Luther King Jr. Day at school, two months before his fifth birthday when he began to point out “That guy comes from Africa. And she comes from Africa, too!" It was embarrassing how loudly he did this. "People with brown skin are from Africa," he'd repeat. He had not been taught the names for races—he had not heard the term "black" and he called us "people with pinkish-whitish skin." The strengths of this evidence is that it provides a good personal testimony on how the author’s experience on the topic by addressing his son’s views of racism. However, this personal testimony is only based on one individual’s experience with this concept. Therefore it couldn’t fully count as a viable reason of how children react when they see people’s different skin color for the first time. The findings that I got from reading this article is that all of the evidences presented here were all mostly well-supported. The evidences presented did some flaws in making them viable sources to help support the claim of what the researchers were trying to uncover about the start of racism in early childhood. For example, the personal testimony of the author’s son’s perceptive of racial acceptance plays a large role similar to the findings from Vittrup and Bigler’s case. Overall, the article presented a lot of well-presented evidences that gives insight about how racism is begun in early